Thread: Don't WILD yourself to where you are sleeping

Congrats! I remember a lucid where I was lying in bed. I believed it was real until I reached over and put my hand through the window =P

That's what makes LDing so cool, the reality!

Ditto on the WILD thing! Last night ... well this morning anyway ... I got up after 5 1/2 hours of sleep and spent the next 90 minutes reading this site and other material on lucid dreaming. Not really wanting to mention the competition Seeker, but you should really check out the explanation on WILDs on www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk, the use of imagery to emulate the experience really helped me. Maybe you can exchange banner links with the guy?? He's got a really interesting idea going.

...Anyway... after ages watching the hypno-whatsit imagery (which I managed to just watch for the first time - usually I'd loose concentration and imagine a story or something) an image began to form of my body below me. It was hazy as hell, but I could feel myself as I started to sit up. It took absolutely no effort though, almost as if I floated into a seated position! It was at this point that I also started to feel the vibrations everyone was talking about. It may have been the fact that I have read so much about them and conditioned myself to the expected sensation, but it wasn't that intense. Well, it wasn't violent as some people had said.

Eventually I got up and was standing on my bed, but for some reason it felt more like an OBE rather than an LD, even though I knew it wasn't (I doesn't make sense to me either!), so I was wondering why I wasn't floating? So I forced myself to float - which felt amazing!! I actually had the sensation of spining upside-down and I could see my body below me stiff, like a plank of wood! It was then that I realised my aim and, remembering the technique I read, I created an image infront of me: a green room with two office chairs, a desk with a monitor on, and a white door at the back. But I wasn't part of that scene, so I kinda stepped into the scene as if stepping onto a stage set. Then the lucidity hit me like a cold shower! I put my hands in front of me and rested them on the backs of the two chairs and I was instantly amazed by how real it felt: feeling the coarse, woven texture of the fabric!

I then realised there were no people in the scene, like I had created a preliminary 'test' area so I can get used to the reality without too much distraction. So I went to the monitor and saw another scene, much similar to this one, but with two hazy people in it. I stepped into the monitor and... I woke up! ...or so I thought... this is where things started to get trippy!!

...I 'woke up' in my lounge and thought "I must have sleep-walked!", but then noticed that the blanket was on the chair, when I remembered putting it back on the sofa, so I figured I was still dreaming. I then woke up again in bed and I could feel the shakes (quite violent this time), and it felt like I was shaking too much!! My eyes were open and it felt like I was foaming at the mouth!! It was actually quite scary!! I started to think I was ... well, lets just say I was a bit scared! But then I thought .. this could be a dream still! And at that I really woke up!! ... ? ?

... ... the front door opens... someone's inside! ... the landlord?? ...A man with a bald head walks into the bedroom and says something! I sit up in bed and realise this MUST be a dream still!! But it's so real that it could easily be reality! So far, when I'm in a dream I still know I'm dreaming, but this was like ... now! So I push my finger into my hand a few times, but it doesn't work! I get up and storm into the kitchen where a dark-haired man is standing (there are two more in the hallway), then, although I'm aware this could be a dream, I begin to argue with him and start to fight with him!...

...I then wake up - for real this time!! ...I lie there in awe of the experience I just had! How crazy it was, and how real! This was so much better than just becoming lucid, than going for a flight or something! I'd perhaps even go as far to say that, because of how illogical this was in the realms of science, it was even better than sex!! It also showed how complex our memory is and how it can remember to so much detail that everything can seem in the mind exactly as it would in reality!

Anyway, I didn’t want to waffle on so much, but I just wanted to have my experience documented … and I suppose agree with you that it’s best not to imagine your own room: or else you’ll get invaded by strange men!!

WS

[quote]Ditto on the WILD thing! Last night ... well this morning anyway ... I got up after 5 1/2 hours of sleep and spent the next 90 minutes reading this site and other material on lucid dreaming. Not really wanting to mention the competition Seeker, but you should really check out the explanation on WILDs on www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk, the use of imagery to emulate the experience really helped me. Maybe you can exchange banner links with the guy?? He's got a really interesting idea going.

...Anyway... after ages watching the hypno-whatsit imagery (which I managed to just watch for the first time - usually I'd loose concentration and imagine a story or something) an image began to form of my body below me. It was hazy as hell, but I could feel myself as I started to sit up. It took absolutely no effort though, almost as if I floated into a seated position! It was at this point that I also started to feel the vibrations everyone was talking about. It may have been the fact that I have read so much about them and conditioned myself to the expected sensation, but it wasn't that intense. Well, it wasn't violent as some people had said.

Eventually I got up and was standing on my bed, but for some reason it felt more like an OBE rather than an LD, even though I knew it wasn't (I doesn't make sense to me either!), so I was wondering why I wasn't floating? So I forced myself to float - which felt amazing!! I actually had the sensation of spining upside-down and I could see my body below me stiff, like a plank of wood! It was then that I realised my aim and, remembering the technique I read, I created an image infront of me: a green room with two office chairs, a desk with a monitor on, and a white door at the back. But I wasn't part of that scene, so I kinda stepped into the scene as if stepping onto a stage set. Then the lucidity hit me like a cold shower! I put my hands in front of me and rested them on the backs of the two chairs and I was instantly amazed by how real it felt: feeling the coarse, woven texture of the fabric!

I then realised there were no people in the scene, like I had created a preliminary 'test' area so I can get used to the reality without too much distraction. So I went to the monitor and saw another scene, much similar to this one, but with two hazy people in it. I stepped into the monitor and... I woke up! ...or so I thought... this is where things started to get trippy!!

...I 'woke up' in my lounge and thought "I must have sleep-walked!", but then noticed that the blanket was on the chair, when I remembered putting it back on the sofa, so I figured I was still dreaming. I then woke up again in bed and I could feel the shakes (quite violent this time), and it felt like I was shaking too much!! My eyes were open and it felt like I was foaming at the mouth!! It was actually quite scary!! I started to think I was ... well, lets just say I was a bit scared! But then I thought .. this could be a dream still! And at that I really woke up!! ... ? ?

... ... the front door opens... someone's inside! ... the landlord?? ...A man with a bald head walks into the bedroom and says something! I sit up in bed and realise this MUST be a dream still!! But it's so real that it could easily be reality! So far, when I'm in a dream I still know I'm dreaming, but this was like ... now! So I push my finger into my hand a few times, but it doesn't work! I get up and storm into the kitchen where a dark-haired man is standing (there are two more in the hallway), then, although I'm aware this could be a dream, I begin to argue with him and start to fight with him!...

...I then wake up - for real this time!! ...I lie there in awe of the experience I just had! How crazy it was, and how real! This was so much better than just becoming lucid, than going for a flight or something! I'd perhaps even go as far to say that, because of how illogical this was in the realms of science, it was even better than sex!! It also showed how complex our memory is and how it can remember to so much detail that everything can seem in the mind exactly as it would in reality!

Anyway, I didn’t want to waffle on so much, but I just wanted to have my experience documented … and I suppose agree with you that it’s best not to imagine your own room: or else you’ll get invaded by strange men!!

WS

That whole post was really helpfull to me, thanks a lot, I've been trying all the techniques over the last couple of days.. I will be sure to try the WILD tonight, and thanks a bunch for the links to the imagery.

Hey, White Shadow. That sounds like it was great! (like I said in the PM)
I'd suggest you start a dream journal, and just stick that in there...

Got one, unless you mean online? It takes me long enough to write them by hand, plus I don't have time in the mornings to type them before work! More interested in remembering my dreams (the reason for my journal) rather than other people's opinions. Just that this was such a breakthrough as far as I was concerned, so I thought I'd help those who were sceptical about the possibilities of LDing.

... ... I just thought though, all I need is to control my logic and memory and I can answer my own post "Where's my logic" !!

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WS